What sort of voice would suit a ghost?
To find an answer to that, filmmaker Mysskin, whose paranormal thriller Pissasu is hitting the screens today, sent his assistant directors on a wild goose chase of sorts.
“I asked them to go to the most unusual of spots and record unique live sounds,” he said, in a telephonic interview. “They came back with all sorts of sounds, including recordings at a pig sty and the screeching noise a bottle dragged on the road would make. We eventually synthesised a lot of these sounds to create the voice of the ghost. I hope it creates the expected impact inside a theatre.”
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The director’s last film at the box office,
Mysskin said human compassion was the central theme in all his movies. It wouldn’t be any different with Pissasu too, the director said.
“The want of a ghost has traditionally been portrayed as negative, and the general idea is to fear ghosts. But I think I have a different approach to the story with
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